nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220809-181618-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220809s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220809-181618-0 doi eng 342 23 Martínez, Eric Author aut Is Legal Longtermism Common Sense? Martínez, Eric Verfassungsblog 2022-08-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The past decade has seen a growing interest in protecting future generations from risks associated with climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence, and other potential threats. Philosophical theories have developed in parallel, and those associated with the view that one should be particularly concerned with ensuring that the long-run future goes well have been referred to as longtermism. In the context of law, these theories form the basis for legal longtermism, the set of views associated with the claim that law and legal institutions ought to protect the far future. Based on a pair of recent empirical studies we show that legal experts and laypeople alike believe that the law should protect the long-term future much more than it currently does; that legal experts believe that the law can predictably and feasibly protect the long-term future; and that these beliefs hold true across major demographic subgroups. CC BY-SA 4.0 Future Generations Future rights Longtermism Winter, Christoph Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/is-legal-longtermism-common-sense/ raw object